HISTORY 40A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Joint-Stock Company, Indian Massacre Of 1622, Pequot War
18 Oct 2016
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Indians and Puritans in New England -- Culture Clash
I. Environment: Secular vs. Sacred II. Authority
Puritans: great chain of being Indians -- sachem, sagamore
Indians: Manitou, Reciprocity
III. Epidemics IV. Private Property
Indians -- loss of life Indians: land ownership & surplus
Puritans -- sign from God Puritans -- status based on possessions
V. Land VI. Puritan Sense of mission
Puritans: Right of discovery Pequot War -- 1636 -- 1637
Vacuum domicilium Mystic Massacre
Virginia vs Massachusetts Bay
Virginia
● Joint stock company
● Settled by men who claimed a desire to Christianize the Indians and settle with them
● Not in strict sense a colony -- rather business venture
● English settlers depended upon Indians
● Tobacco!!! Pressure on Indians for land
● After 1622 massacre and 1644 attack -- no more talk of Christianizing or settling
Massachusetts Bay
● Joint stock company
● Settlers came in family units
● Puritans
● To transport a purer form of English society in the New World
● Difficult during the first year followed by prosperity
● Godly communities to set an example to the world
● Pequot War, 1636
● Extermination and slavery of Indians
Environment for Europeans
Resource for man to use
Genesis: “Subdue the earth and dominion [power] over every living thing”
Sacred and secular separate
Natural world created by God there for humans to understand and control
Great Chain of Being
Means by which relationships ordered:
God on top, then humans, then animal kingdom, down to minerals.
Humans ranked as well, not all the same:
Based on wealth and Christianity
Environment for New England Indians
No difference b/w sacred and secular
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Document Summary
Indians and puritans in new england -- culture clash: environment: secular vs. sacred ii. Puritans: great chain of being indians -- sachem, sagamore. Indians -- loss of life indians: land ownership & surplus. Puritans -- sign from god puritans -- status based on possessions: land vi. Puritans: right of discovery pequot war -- 1636 -- 1637. Settled by men who claimed a desire to christianize the indians and settle with them. Not in strict sense a colony -- rather business venture. After 1622 massacre and 1644 attack -- no more talk of christianizing or settling. To transport a purer form of english society in the new world. Difficult during the first year followed by prosperity. Godly communities to set an example to the world. Genesis: subdue the earth and dominion [power] over every living thing . Natural world created by god there for humans to understand and control. God on top, then humans, then animal kingdom, down to minerals.
